Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Pacific Islands Shipbuilding Company Shipyard, Kowloon Bay

The bad guys are running their operations from an industrial site in Kowloon Bay. The landmark that helped place this particular site is the building in the background of the first image. It's the former Amoycan Industrial Centre. It was redeveloped into an apartment complex starting circa 2020 following a devastating fire that killed two firemen in 2016. The relative location of our filming site puts it somewhere along the old Kowloon Bay waterfront in an area that is now completely occupied by Telford Gardens and the MTR Kowloon Bay depot. In fact, I am fairly certain this was part of the former PAcific Islands Shipbuilding Company shipyard. If you read my recent post for Die sieben Masken des Judoka (aka Casse-tête chinois pour le judoka) then you will recognise the small hut with the Chinese roof in the background. This was one of my pandemic finds when I had a whole bunch of time on my hands - another one that I forgot to post about until I was writing this post.

Anyway, as you can see in the lower image, the same small hut with the Chinese roof can be seen in the image below as can be seen in the stills from that film, shot the same year.

Amoycan Industrial Centre in the background

Desperate Mission - Germán Cobos (1965) - More Kwun Tong Road

Back to Kwun Tong Road again, but this time we are a bit further to the north and west. The large building you can see on the left side of the road is the former Amoycan Industrial Centre. This building was constructed in 1961 and I guess was part of the Amoy canning factory (located behind it from this angle). In later years it became a mixture of enterprises including a self-storage business on the 3rd floor. This is signficant because just a few years ago (2016) a fire occurred in one of the storage units - one of the worst in many years - that ended up claiming the lives of two firemen. It may have been this that spurred the owner to redevelop the site. The building was demolished in 2019/2020 and a new high rise residential development called "The Aperture" has been built on the site. Same view today (I kid you not).